A photographer who suffered serious injuries in an explosion which killed British journalist Rupert Hamer will be brought back to the UK from Afghanistan.
Philip Coburn, 43, who works for the Sunday Mirror, will be treated at Selly Oak Hospital in Birmingham.
He and Mr Hamer, the paper's defence correspondent, were caught up in the blast on Saturday while embedded with US Marines.
Tributes poured in for father-of-three Hamer, 39, who became the first British journalist to die in the Afghanistan war zone when he was killed on Saturday.
The blast also killed a US Marine and left five more with serious injuries.
Hamer died of his wounds at the scene north west of Nawa in Helmand province and Coburn remains in a serious but stable condition, the Ministry of Defence said.
Chris Hughes, the Daily Mirror's security correspondent, said: "It's absolutely devastating. I am a good friend of both of these guys.
"Rupert was an extremely popular figure around Mirror Group newspapers - a very, very good journalist, dedicated and really, really valued. Also an extremely engaging character, extremely popular."
Hughes said an embed was the best system for covering war zones, with both US and British military taking "great care" of journalists, but he added: "I think what has happened is a measure of the fact that Afghanistan is becoming increasingly hazardous and a difficult place to operate. Rupert has sadly fallen victim to that and he is the first British journalist to be killed on the Afghan front line."
The pair were accompanying a patrol when their vehicle struck an improvised explosive device. They flew to the region on New Year's Eve for a trip scheduled to last a month, covering the start of the US Marines' surge into southern Afghanistan.
